News on key developments at SupremeSAT, and general news on the Space and Satellite industry from across the web
The United States Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) and its mission partner, NASA, successfully deployed the Department of Defense (DoD) Space Test Program Satellite-4 (STPSat-4) from the International Space Station on 28 January 2020. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020013000
ISS-Reshetnev’s GLONASS-M navigation satellite has successfully flown from Krasnoyarsk to the Plesetsk cosmodrome. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020013001
Comtech Telecommunications Corp. and Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. jointly announced that Comtech has agreed to acquire Gilat in a cash and stock transaction for US$10.25 per Gilat ordinary share of which 70% will be paid in cash and 30% in Comtech common stock, resulting in an enterprise value of approximately US$532.5 million. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020013002
Rocket: Falcon 9; Payload: 60 Starlink satellites; Date: 29 January 2020, 1406 UTC; Launch site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, USA. The satellites were successfully deployed into a circular 290 km altitude orbit, inclined at 53 degrees, a little over one hour after lift-off. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020012900
GMV has signed a contract with Northrop Grumman for development and supply of the Satellite Operations Center for Space Norway HEOSAT’s ASBM-1 and ASBM-2 satellites. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020012901
Engineers for NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft are working to return the mission to normal operating conditions after one of the spacecraft’s autonomous fault protection routines was triggered. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020012902
The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)’s Council for Space Exploration plans to recommend that the country’s relevant ministries and departments keep a more watchful eye on nuclear-powered objects in outer space, so as to predict possible risks of their falling on Earth, according to a Council statement signed by RAS head Alexander Sergeyev. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020012903
Tethers Unlimited said it has successfully demonstrated on-orbit operation of the Terminator Tape, a solution for removing space debris from on orbit. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020012904
The Boeing Company reported financial results for the fourth-quarter 2019. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020012905
Weather concerns have prompted SpaceX to push back a launch attempt of Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station by another day. http://www.sat-nd.com/archive/?id=2020012800